2.00 SOUNDING BRASSA series of four programs featuring music for brass instruments, written and presented by Graham Ashton.Trumpeter Graham Ashton has established a brilliant solo career having given performances with most of the major orchestras in Britain and Europe. He has recorded solo CDs as well as those with his ensemble, The Graham Ashton Brass Ensemble.Brass Now and Then, the Ensemble's first recording for ABC Classics, has been recently released.In addition to his performing commitments this year, Graham Ashton has taken up the appointment of Dean of Music at the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts.Program 1: Renaissance and Baroque BrassA brass player's life in Venice at the end of the 16th century would have been musically rich and rewarding, as would life in Bologna at the end of the 17th century, when the Basilica of St Petronio was the centre for virtuoso Italian trumpeters. Produced by Judith Irvine.

3.00 SUNDAY LIVEFrom the Iwaki Auditorium, Southbank, MelbourneSpiros Rantos, violinBrachi Tilles, pianoGreek-born violinist Spiros Rantos and his partner Israeli born pianist Bracchi Tilles form one of this country's most exciting and sought after musical duos. Together they are founding members of the chamber music group Ensemble I. They have toured Europe numbers of times and, just recently, Spiros was appointed violin lecturer at the University of Queensland, Brisbane.Mozart Sonata in B flat, K 454 19'Debussy Sonata for violin and piano 11'Brahms F A E Sonata: Scherzo 5'Y Konstantinidis Six Greek Dances 9'Produced by Lydia Warren

4.00 YOUNG AUSTRALIAWith Simon HealyAdelaide Wind OrchestraStephen Boyle, conductorReed El Camino Real, A Latin Fantasy 11'Reed Armenian Dances 33'David Stanhope Little Ripper March 3'Recorded by the ABC in the Adelaide Town HallProduced by Chris Casey5.00 FM JAZZWith Kevin RoperThe Catholics in BremenOne of the most popular jazz groups in Australia on tour in Europe. Part 2 included in the program today.

8.00 THE MAGIC FLUTEThis opera, described by English music critic Neville Cardus as 'the only one in existence that might conceivably have been composed by God', was the last opera of the barely mortal Mozart.Amongst the fine cast in a recording made in Edinburgh, July 1991, are:Cast:Pamina: Barbara Hendricks, sopranoTamino: Jerry Hadley, tenorPapageno: Thomas Allen, baritoneSarastro: Robert Lloyd, bassQueen of the Night: June Anderson, sopranoPapagena: Ulrike Steinsky, sopranoSpeaker: Gottfried Hornik, nMonostatos: Helmut Wildhaber, tenorScottish Chamber Orch and Chorus/Charles MackerrasTelarc CD-80302 2hr32'

12.00 MARTIN HIBBLE'S MUSIC OVERNIGHTCzech conductor, Karel Sejna, a pupil of Vaclav Talich, made many fine recordings of his countrymen's music with the Czech Philharmonic in the fifties and sixties for Supraphon. At last, they're appearing on CD in excellent re-masterings. Each Sunday night this month, hear the symphonies of Smetana and Fibich, preceded by a selection of the Slavonic Dances of Dvorák in Sejna's prize-winning 1959 reading, with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra at its peak.Dvorák Slavonic Dances, Op 46: Nos 1-4. Supraphonet 11 1101-2 19'Smetana Festive Symphony, Op 6. Supraphon SU 1914-2 011 45'